Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-06
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

war of 1872, and the Black Hawk war,
died at Clinton, ILL.,, Monday, at the age
of SO years.
JACOB BERGER, wholesale lumber, of
Wheeling, W. Va, assigned Wednesday.
Assets, $4,000; liabilities, $4,000.
IT is believed that track-laying on the
Red River road will be begun next week,
and that the line will be finished in time
to move a portion of this years crops.
The Worlds Conference of Orthodox
| friends, in session at Richmond, Ind, ad-
journed Wednesday.
At Buffalo, N. Y, mortgage of $780,
| 100000, to pay debts, was filed on Thurs
day.
DR.. EDWARD D. KITToE, a well-known
physician, and medical director on the
staff of General Grant during the late
war died Thursday at Galena, ILL.,, aged
~ years.
The last spike, gold one, was driven
Wednesday in the Kansas City, Memphis
and Birmingham Road, at Crews Mill,
Ala. The line will be opened for bust
ness at once.
AN assignment was made Thursday by
the J. B. Walthen Il Bro. Company dis
| tillers, Louisville, KY. The liabilities
are 100000, and the assets are figured at
| $4,000.
THE schedules in the assignment of the
| surviving partner of the firm of Span
nOchia Bros, merchants at New York
show liabilities of $173, 113; actual assets,
1000.
The general term of the supreme court
at New York, Thursday, issued an order
that the sentence imposed on Jacab Sharp
be carried out.
JAMES S. CowLIN, an importer of laces
| at No. 273 Church street, New York,
tailed Monday. He gave preferences
for $4,000, and owes about $15O,00O.
REPORTS from all parts of the tobacco
country contiguous 40 Danville, Va, state
10 damage has been done to the growing
crops by frost.
The gold coin and bullion of the Trea-
su-y on September 20 was $3.50, 1886,
which is an increase in the total for ten
days of $3.50 638.
THE -four output at Minneapolis last
week was 127, $50 barrels, against 10000
barrels the previous week. The -four
market is strong, and millers are accept
ing orders less freely.
In three-mile sculling race at Owego,
N. Y, Wednesday, Charles E. Courtney
defeated George Bubear in 1885. The
| men will row another race for So, 500 with
in ten days.
A NUMBER of veterans visited the tomb
of Lincoln Thursday on their way from
the st. Louis encampment. Rain fell at
the State Capitol the greater part of the
day and interfered with the exercises.
| AT New York, Thursday, the receiver of
the defuEct firm of Mitchell, Vance &
Co., gas fixtures, reported to meeting
of creditors actual assets of $504,558;
with liabilities of $1,200,525.
| A RECEIVER has been appointed for the
| Sewerage and Sewage Utilization Com
pany, of New York, on judgment of
| 1921. The company was incorporated
| in 1888, with capital stock of $5OO,UOO.
THE season of the Ohio Base Ball
League closed at Mansfield, Ohio, Wednes-
day. Kalamazoo defeated the home team
and wins the pennant. GAINESVILLE is sec
ond.
81. D. CHoLLAR, President of the City
Council of Redwood Falls, Mimi, died
Monday from injuries received Saturday
by falling from bridge. He was we'll
known in State politics.
The decision in the Jacob Sharp case
was affirmed Monday at New York, and
| the prisoner will be sent to Sing Sing at
once. 1t is probable, hewever, that the
case will be taken to the Court of Ap-
peals.
THE Chinese residents of San Francis
| CO, CAL, had remarkable parade Friday
in honor of their newly arrived IDOL 'Tan
Wong" The costumes of the celestials
were of the most gorgeous description,
an they were accompanied ON their march
by idols, dragons, etc.
AT the great reunion of the blue and
the gray at Evansville, Ind, Friday, the
Louisville Light Infantry carried of
the first prize of $1,000 for best drill;
Conpan A, First Regiment, 1. N. g., sec-
ond, $500; Hermitage Guards of Nash
vile, Tenn, third, $500. The reunion
losed.
A DISPATCH announcing that the treas
ury was prepared to purchase SD, 1000, 900
worth of bonds was published in Boston
as 1924, OO0, 000," and the error has caused
much sorrow 20 many investors, who we're
| caught in the reaction when the 'bull''
was rectifed.
MRS. ANGIE F. NEWMAN, at Lincoln !
Neb., Friday, was unanimously elected a
delegate to the General Conference Of
the M. E. Church, to be held at Brooklyn,
N. Y, next May. She is the first lady
on whom that honor has been con-
f4rred,
In the Pacific Road investigation ia
New York, friday, Gen. Dodge said the
cost of building the railway would not
have been one-third of what it was had
the government not rushed the company
Judge Thurstou said Nebraska was settled
along the line of the Union Pacific, by
men who had carried guns in "the late
unpleasantness," and that they could not
be brought to vote for the railway.
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